Top 63 Shape Reality Quotes
#1. Fiction is an elemental force, which has the power to shape reality in its own image - or images, I should say - because reality, like light, exists not only as a single point or particle, but also as an array of possibilities.
Ruth Ozeki
#2. Poor planning or poor execution of plans is simply to let some force other than reason shape reality.
Robert McNamara
#3. Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
Paul Auster
#4. You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it.
Shiro Amano
#6. The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.
Mark Doty
#7. Let best thoughts come to you and
see it will take shape of reality.
Nisha B. Thakur
#8. Who was really the cop-out, Jack who went and got what he needed to make his dream real, molding a Jack Barron reality to the shape of his dreams, or me, shaping dreams to the size of mundane reality
Norman Spinrad
#9. Even for a moment do not think that you are the body. Give yourself no name, no shape. In the darkness and the silence reality is found.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#10. Feeling is never invisible; it takes shape and manifests as form everywhere in nature. Nature can, therefore, be viewed as feeling unfurled, a living reality in front of us and amidst us.
Andreas Weber
#11. Could feel the reservation wheeling around him, changing shape so that he nearly had to vomit, or hold his arms to his head and scream against it all.
Stephen Graham Jones
#12. The power to shape your reality lies within you, therefore the most important voice you will ever hear is your own.
Max Patrick
#13. The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape of 'prejudices' has a great deal of power; he is forced to learn that past reality is also a reality.
Hannah Arendt
#14. What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.
Carolyn Heilbrun
#15. The laws of literature, like the laws of gossip, usually demand exaggeration, decontextualization, a heightened or minimalized reality, and a lot more shape and order and impact than everyday life.
Michelle Huneven
#16. While I complain of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving it.
Claude Levi-Strauss
#17. Speed now illuminates reality whereas light once gave objects of the world their shape.
Paul Virilio
#18. Stadiums fill up with people to see what's going to happen between the lines. But life isn't only about visible realities. There are invisible and unseen nuances ... things that shape us into who we are.
Orel Hershiser
#19. Your worldview has to have the same shape that reality does.
J. Budziszewski
#20. We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet it is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.
James A. Baldwin
#21. Dreams can either die young or mature to become realities depending on how they are handled!
Israelmore Ayivor
#22. It is thus that imagination can in the end determine destiny, and it but needs our future actions to be given shape in speech so that we are obliged to give them the reality of accomplishment.
Maurice Druon
#23. Whether it is because the faith which creates has ceased to exist in me, or because reality takes shape in the memory alone, the flowers that people show me nowadays for the first time never seem to me to be true flowers.
Marcel Proust
#25. I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.
Sydney Carter
#26. the knife's edge that separates failure from success in life. That edge is your attitude, which has the power to help shape your reality.
50 Cent
#27. The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book, in the interstice of repetitions and commentaries; it is born and takes shape in the interval between books. It is the phenomena of the library.
Michel Foucault
#28. Let us give up our longing for welfare, our love of war, and our desire to see the government control and shape our fellow citizens. We must come to imagine liberty again, and believe that it can be a reality. We must recapture what it means to be free.
Ron Paul
#29. Each and every day around the world, display wars are taking place as governments, multinational corporations, criminals, and terrorists battle to shape and control what is seen online. What ensues is a real but covert war on reality, one that is meant to blind us to the truth.
Marc Goodman
#30. Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.
Theodore White
#31. It's a reality of art that the fewer lines you get, the harder it is. Cartooning is actually harder than realism. You have less to work with. It's like trying to build a house-if you have unlimited resources, you're in much better shape than if you get two bricks, a hammer, and a bent nail.
Ursula Vernon
#32. God the Grand Weaver seeks those with tender hearts so that he can put his imprint on them. Your hurts and your disappointments are part of that design, to shape your heart and the way you feel about reality. The hurts you live through will always shape you. There is no other way.
Ravi Zacharias
#33. How do I shape my reality? I use wisdom and strategy to shift the possible to the probable ... Then, effort and consistency will bridge the probable to the inevitable. Success is a behavior ... I make sure my mindset and actions are working in alignment.
Steve Maraboli
#34. Because the body is the end product of intelligence and how that intelligence shapes your reality will shape the reality of the body.
Deepak Chopra
#35. The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not only a reality but the reality which gives meaning, shape and purpose to everything we do, everything we are.
John Main
#36. We never know the reality of things: we see only what we are aware of. It is our consciousness that determines the shape of the world around us
its size, motion and meaning.
Nawal El Saadawi
#37. She knew the true shape of the world. All else was shadow and the sound of distant drums.
Patrick Rothfuss
#38. The mind was designed not to defend what we want, but to discover what is ultimately true, which should shape our wants and satisfy them more deeply with God. The purpose of the mind is not to rationalize subjective preferences, but to recognize objective reality and to help the heart revel in God.
John Piper
#39. naturalism, alone among all considered philosophical attempts to describe the shape of reality, is radically insufficient in its explanatory range.
David Bentley Hart
#40. Your journey is completely yours. It is unique. Others may try to steal part of it, tell it in their words or shape it to suit them. Reality is no one can live it or own it but you. Take charge of your journey, it's yours and yours alone!
Kemi Sogunle
#41. It was all about taking the leap of faith. It said that the fear that stops us from doing what we really want, is often not based on reality. We shape our fears in our heads, but things are so much easier than we think.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
#42. To realize the full possibilities of this economy, we must reach beyond our own borders, to shape the revolution that is tearing down barriers and building new networks among nations and individuals, and economies and cultures: globalization. It's the central reality of our time.
William J. Clinton
#43. But everything takes a different shape when we pass from abstractions to reality. In the former, everything must be subject to optimism, and we must imagine the one side as well as the other striving after perfection and even attaining it. Will this ever take place in reality?
Carl Von Clausewitz
#44. A fine memoir is to a fine novel as a well-wrought blanket is to a fancifully embroidered patchwork quilt. The memoir, a logical creation, dissects and dignifies reality. Fiction, wholly extravagant, magnifies it and gives it moral shape. Fiction has no practical purpose. Fiction, after all, is art.
Julia Glass
#45. By suicide I introduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will ... now I choose the direction of my thought and the direction of my faculties, my tendencies, my reality.
Antonin Artaud
#46. Living is not an art, but to write of life is. Life is a series of accidents and anticlimaxes, misremembered and misunderstood, with lessons only dimly learned. Life is disorganized, lacks shape, lacks story.
Christopher Priest
#47. Nature is the shape in which the man of higher Cultures synthesizes and interprets the immediate impressions of his senses. History is that from which his imagination seeks comprehension of the living existence of the world in relation to his own life, which he thereby invests with a deeper reality.
Oswald Spengler
#48. Social engaged intellectuals must accept reality as they found it and shape it toward positive social goals, not stand aside in self-righteous isolation.
John Dewey
#49. Internal and external world is interdependent. Your experiences and impressions of the outside world shape your thoughts and imagination, while making the choice and decisions, from your internal thought process, creates your physical reality.
Roshan Sharma
#50. We take our shape within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth.
James Baldwin
#51. Shape our reality through the exercise of intention, through the application of our free will as conscious beings.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#52. What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.
David O. Russell
#53. I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.
Bibhu Mohapatra
#54. Keep writing and let the world roll on by.
Take the madness of reality and shape it into something worth sharing.
Peter James West
#55. Doubts are suppressed by groups ... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.
Daniel Kahneman
#56. Every morning there are flowers of potentials. Your thoughts and interactions give them shape and reality.
Amit Ray
#57. Your attitudes are slowly shaping you at all times and calling your deepest truths to the surface of your reality.
Bryant McGill
#58. Know that the outward form passes away, but the world of reality remains forever. How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the jug; go, seek the water!
Rumi
#59. A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.
Dylan Thomas
#60. Actions are what shape our reality; words are empty without them.
Cathryn Louis
#61. Art is not a mirror to hold up to reality, rather a hammer to shape it.
Bertolt Brecht
#62. The cross is the crux, the crossroads, the twisted knot at the center of reality, to which all previous history leads and from which all subsequent history flows. By it we know all reality is cruciform - the love of God, the shape of creation, the labyrinth of human history.
Peter J. Leithart
#63. The reality is that the NBA was in worse shape in the '70s and early '80s. People have convenient memories.
Mike Thibault
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